Master the Aperture of the Diaphragm in Photography ❤️𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗶́𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗮 👀 Free Photography Class: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-aula-... 📗 Free E-Book 1: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-ebook... 📙 Free E-Book 2: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-ebook... 📘 Free E-Book 3: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-ebook... 🖥️ Free Presets: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-prese... 📰 Photography Blog: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/yt-blog-... 🔵𝗖𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼 📷Complete Photography Course: https://jornadadafoto.com.br/treiname... WHAT IS Aperture The diaphragm can be defined as the opening in a lens through which light passes to enter the camera. It's an easy concept to understand if you just think about how your eyes work. As you move between light and dark environments, the iris in your eyes expands or shrinks, controlling the size of your pupil. In photography, the “pupil” of your lens is called the aperture. You can make the aperture smaller or larger to allow more or less light to reach your camera’s sensor. As we’ve discussed, the aperture is like the “pupil” of your camera system, which can open and close to change the amount of light that passes through. Among many things, the aperture can add depth to your photos by controlling the depth of field. At one extreme, a wide aperture will give you a blurred background with a beautiful pink focus effect. On the other hand, the same lens can give you sharp shots from the foreground to the distant horizon. It can also change the exposure of your images, making them brighter or darker. HOW IT AFFECTS EXPOSURE The aperture has several effects on your photos. One of the most important is the brightness, or exposure, of your images. As the aperture changes size, it changes the total amount of light that hits the camera’s sensor—and therefore the brightness of the image. A wide aperture will let in a lot of light, resulting in a brighter photograph. A small aperture does the exact opposite, making the photo darker. In a dark environment—indoors or at night—you’ll probably want to select a large aperture to capture as much light as possible. This is the same reason your pupils dilate when it starts to get dark. HOW IT AFFECTS DEPTH OF FIELD The other important effect that aperture settings have is depth of field. Depth of field is the amount of your photograph that appears sharp. Some images have a “small” or “shallow” depth of field, where the background is completely out of focus. Other images have a “large” or “deep” depth of field, where both the foreground and background are sharp. You’ll notice that the image on the left has a shallow depth of field, where only the first flower is in focus, compared to the second image, where more of the flowers toward the background are in focus. This means that the second image has a larger depth of field. Both settings have their effects on the person who will view the photo later. The first one ends up drawing the person's interest only to the foreground (isolating the object), making the rest look more like a colorful background, without detail. And in the second one, the person who is viewing ends up looking at more of the photo, they have more elements that they need to focus on and understand. A trick to remember this relationship: a large aperture results in a large amount of foreground and background blur. This is usually desirable for portraits or general shots of objects where you want to isolate the subject. Sometimes, you can frame the subject with objects in the foreground, which will also be out of focus in relation to the subject. On the other hand, a small aperture results in a small amount of background blur, which is usually ideal for some types of photography, such as landscape and architecture. In the landscape photo below, I used a small aperture to ensure that the foreground and background were as sharp as possible from front to back: